{"id":45312,"date":"2021-08-09T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/marlins-brinson-target-of-fans-racial-slur-in-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:24:42","slug":"marlins-brinson-target-of-fans-racial-slur-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/marlins-brinson-target-of-fans-racial-slur-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins\u2019 Brinson target of fan\u2019s racial slur in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Miami Marlins' Lewis Brinson follows the flight of his double that drove in two runs off Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland in the fifth inning Sunday in Denver. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski)<\/span>David Zalubowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DENVER (AP) \u2014 Lewis Brinson of the Miami Marlins was targeted by a fan at Coors Field who repeatedly shouted a racial slur at the Black outfielder when he batted in the ninth inning Sunday.<\/p>\n

The slur was clearly heard on the Bally Sports Florida telecast of the Marlins\u2019 13-8 loss to the Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n

Marlins spokesman Jason Latimer said the team was aware of the clip.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither Lewis, nor any other Marlins on the field or in the dugout, heard what was shouted,\u201d he said in a text message to The Associated Press. \u201cWe brought the matter to the attention of the Rockies. How the matter is being handled, I would have to defer to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rockies condemned the fan\u2019s conduct in a statement released Sunday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Colorado Rockies are disgusted at the racial slur by a fan directed at the Marlins\u2019 Lewis Brinson during the ninth inning of today\u2019s game,” the team said. “Although the subject was not identified prior to the end of the game, the Rockies are still investigating this incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rockies have zero tolerance for any form of racism or discrimination, and any fan using derogatory language of any kind will be ejected and banned from Coors Field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Players’ union head Tony Clark, who is Black and was an All-Star first baseman, said \u201cit is a painful reality that progress continues to be elusive in a world where ignorance and bigotry remain all too commonplace.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile many are truly committed to respect and equality for all, the abhorrent racial animus displayed today in one of our ballparks highlights that there is still much work to be done. We have to continue to work together to ensure that racism is never tolerated on or off the field,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n

Fans had started to fill the lower deck of the stadium in the late innings, moving closer for a postgame concert that was part of a Faith Day celebration.<\/p>\n

Team officials weren’t able to debrief ushers in the area where the fan shouted the slur until after the concert ended about an hour later.<\/p>\n

Brinson got two hits and scored twice, and drew a walk in the ninth inning. The 27-year-old Brinson is in his fifth season in the major leagues.<\/p>\n

The Marlins wrapped up their weekend series in Denver and next play Monday night in San Diego.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marlins' Lewis Brinson follows the flight of his double that drove in two runs off Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland in the fifth inning Sunday in Denver. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski)David Zalubowski DENVER (AP) \u2014 Lewis Brinson of the Miami Marlins was targeted by a fan at Coors Field who repeatedly shouted a racial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[470,4605],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-baseball","tag-colorado-rockies"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86441,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45312\/revisions\/86441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45312"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}